On Wednesday, the State cabinet has decided to make it compulsory for shops to have Marathi signboards. In Maharashtra, the shops will now have to display signboards in Marathi in large letters.
Maha CM Uddhav Thackeray tweeted that even if the shop has one employee, it will have a Marathi signboard. Maharashtra Minister Subhash Desai holds the Marathi language portfolio has said that “We are getting complaints of many shops not implementing the rule, so we decided to make this amendment in the Act.”
However, the retail traders’ association has protested the move. Viren Shah of the Federation of Retail Traders Association has said that “The high court has stayed a bigger front on Marathi signboards after we went to court in 2001. This cannot be passed in the assembly as the issue is a sub-judice,” reported The Times Of India.
